Describes a ten-week high school visual arts program. Five incremental drawing assignments dealing with line quality, shapes, conversion from three-dimensional perception to two-, and perspective and distortion of shape are presented. (AM)

Described are various arts and crafts ideas, mostly with a February theme. Included are: ceramic boxes, valentine ideas, and patriotic projects--symbols of our country, silhouettes of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, and stars and stripes. (KC)

Reports research on providing communication skills through art activities in the primary grades. (RL)

Examines the distinctions and interrelation of the artist's intentions and the viewers' understanding of a work of art by using the work of Vincent van Gogh and relating it to the artist's correspondence about his own work. (JMF)

In this experiment in description, students in a high school honors English class were asked to select a surrealistic painting and capture it in writing. Their compositions were given to art students who tried to reproduce the paintings from the written descriptions. (SJL)

To the Indian, art is a way of seeing, and the Indian painters of the 1970s have given greater emphasis to the personal nature of seeing than have any Native artists before them. Article discusses recent trends, qualities, and innovations in Indian art and some of the significant Indian artists.

Describes the use of a simple and familiar medium, finger paints, to get high school students to explore problems of design in painting. (SJL)

Instructions are given for making oil ground, glue gesso, glue water size, oil colors, damar varnish, water colors, encaustic painting, egg tempera painting, etching inks, etching grounds, etching acids, and sugar-lift. (SJL)

In commemoration of America's Bicentennial celebration, the Passaic Valley art students accepted enthusiastically the challenge of painting a Bicentennial mural. (Author)

Discusses three interesting art exhibitions traveling around the United States under the auspices of the American Federation of Arts. (Author/RK)

A small campus of an American university located in Vienna, Austria, which has typically focused on management courses, seeks to introduce a new kind of art program. Planners developed an art major with a sociological emphasis on visual culture. Students are given a chance to explore the images they are bombarded with every day and to gain new…

These two articles discuss the design and production of pop-up books, focusing on the work of Robert Sabuda. Discusses books as an art form, producing prototypes, factory production, pop-up projects for children, Web sites, and a history of pop-ups, and includes a bibliography of relevant materials. (LRW)

Notes that using the visual arts enables students to gain better eye-hand coordination, visual representation skills, communicate ideas, and deeper understanding of the process of discovery. Considers how each of these areas contributes to the development of thinking, creating, problem solving and expressing thoughts through symbols. (SG)

Describes and explains the significance of an African collage selected for this issue's journal cover which represents how dead ancestors look over and guide their living relatives. (TB)

The article describes development, testing, and use of a new instrument, Clark's Drawing Abilities Test, and its success in screening and/or identifying artistically gifted students. Significant correlations have been found between results from this test, the Children's Embedded Figures Test, and teachers' ratings of pupils. (Author/PB)